.IN LATE 2021 Russia began welding metallic crates over the turrets of its tanks, in an attempt to defend them coming from attack. The crates verified unproductive– some Western side analysts amusingly dubbed all of them “emotional-support armour”. Currently Russia has actually launched a much more intensive retrofit, making use of steel bed linen to totally enclose some of its own containers.
The brand new armour has actually gotten the cars the label “turtle storage tanks”. Will kitting them out thus really help?